New: SCSECS Graduate Student Travel Fund

Through generous donations from our members, SCSECS is able to give an award of up to $300.00 to deserving graduate students who will be presenting papers at the annual meeting. The purpose of the award is to help defray the costs of attending the conference so recipients can be fully engaged in the conference.

Applications must be received by January 31. Recipients will be notified before the start of the conference and will receive the award the night of the closing banquet and plenary session.

Award rules:

  • Applicants must be currently participating in a graduate program or be within one year of having received a doctoral degree and without fulltime employment.
  • Applicants must have a paper proposal accepted before applying.
  • Recipients of the award are expected to be fully engaged in the conference, attending the majority of sessions and plenary addresses.

    • Applications should include:

  • A statement of need
  • An explanation of other funding
  • A budget
  • An endorsement from a faculty member
  • A brief vitae that includes a list of conferences previously attended
  • A draft of the paper to be presented

    • Applications can be mailed or emailed to

    Brett McInelly
    English Department
    Brigham Young University
    Provo, UT 84602
    brett_mcinelly@byu.edu

    SCSECS Presidential Prize

    At the 2002 meeting at South Padre Island, the SCSECS executive board initiated a new annual conference award, the coveted SCSECS Presidential Prize. The prize is awarded to the author of the best conference paper in any and all categories.

    The winner of this prize receives something better than mere money: publication of an enhanced version of the winning paper in the next available volume of 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, the award-winning annual journal edited by SCSECS Past President Kevin L. Cope.

    Unlike a few coins in the pocket, the SCSECS Presidential Prize is a treasure for life, in that it persists in the curriculum vitae and influences the development of a professional life from the intellectual cradle to the intellectual grave. Be sure to submit your paper immediately after the annual meeting!

    Noel Foundation Fellowships

    Several Noel Foundation Fellowships, awarded by the James Smith Noel Foundation of Shreveport, Louisiana, have been presented to members of the South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies since the very first fellowships were given out in 1998. The results were so fruitful, at past SCSECS conferences we've featured special panels to showcase our members' findings.

    Fellowships include a $500 travel stipend and star treatment at the Noel Collection, a unique collection of rare printed materials from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries.

    For information about award eligibility and application procedures, please visit the Noel Collection web site.